344 cvi. GESNERACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) [Lysionotus. 



the middle, straight, 2-lipped ; lower lip with 2 folds within. Stamens 

 2 perfect (2 or 3 rudimentary), subincluded; filaments flattened, bent; 

 anthers connivent, connective with an oblong process. Disc annular. 

 Ovary superior, stipitate, linear; style as long as the stamens, stigma shortly 

 2-lobed ; placentas deeply inflexed, then recurved and ovuliferous. Capsule 

 linear, in the following year splitting loculicidally to the base into 2 (ulti- 

 mately 2-partite) valves. Seeds small, oblong, smooth, with a hair at^ the 

 apex, pendent by a f unicle which when detached resembles the apical hair. 

 Species 3, in N. India, China and Japan. 



1 . Zi. serrata ? D. Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ. vii. 85, and Prodr. 124 ; 

 leaves elliptic acuminate crenate- serrate or lanceolate herbaceous sinuate, 

 sepals narrowly lanceolate thin. Sot. Mag. t. 6538. L. ternifolia, Wall. 

 PI. As. liar. ii. 20, t. 118 ; A. DC. Prodr. ix. 264 ; Clarice Comm. $ Cyrt. 

 Seng. t. 52. Calosacme polycarpa, Wall. Cat. 804. 



STJBTBOPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 2-7000 ft. ; from Kumaon to Bhotan, common, 

 Wallich, &c. ASSAM and KHASIA MTS., alt. 1-4000 ft., common. 



Stem 12 in., branched. Leaves often ternate, 6 by 2 in., from narrow-lanceolate 

 to elliptic, closely serrate nearly to the base or sinuate ; nerves prominent, oblique ; 

 petiole 3 in. Peduncles often 4 in.; bracts gin., ovate; pedicels ^-J in. Sepals 

 \ in., in young fruit often enlarged ^- in. and somewhat connate at the base. Corolla 

 1 in., deep purple or paler, or white with purplish veins. Capsule 2-4 in. 



2. Ii. conferta, Clarice-, branches long, leaves elliptic acuminate 

 subentire very coriaceous. Jilschynanthus conferta, G-riff. Priv. Journ. 

 p. 63, name only. 



S.E. ASSAM ; Patkoye Mts., Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3819). 



Branches 18 in. and more, straight, undivided. Leaves ternate, entire, minutely 

 crenate towards the apex ; nerves obscure, at right angles to the midrib. Peduncles 

 and capsules nearly as of L. serrata ; remains of the calyx somewhat coriaceous. 

 Flowers not seen. This may be a var. of L. serrata, but no form of this is known 

 with similarly elongate branches and coriaceous leaves. 



III. XiOXOSTXQBXA, Clarke. 



An undershrub, often rooting near the base ; branches long, leaves 

 opposite, often unequal, serrate, pilose. Cymes peduncled, lax, many-nd. ; 

 bracts and bracteoles small. Sepals 5, lanceolate. Corolla tubular, intiated 

 above the base, straight, yellow ; lobes 5, spreading. Stamens 4, didyna- 

 mous, included ; anthers 2-celled, connivent in pairs ; connective not excur- 

 rent ; cells elliptic, subparallel. Ovary shortly stalked, linear, glabrous ; 

 stigma unilateral, obscurely bifid ; placentas deeply inflexed, bifid, revolute. 

 Capsule linear, loculicidal for its whole length ; placentas revolute covering 

 the seeds. Seeds pendulous, funicle capillary with a single hair at the 

 apex. 



Xi. Griffith!!, Clarice-, leaves elliptic subfalcate acuminate serrate, 

 sepals oblong acute green sometimes denticulate. Didymocarpus Grifiithii, 

 Wight III. ii. 182, t. 159, bad. Dichrotrichum Grifiithii, Clarke Comm. # 

 Cyrt. Seng. t. 51. Chirita Griflithii, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 3-6000 ft. ; from Sikkim to Mishmee, frequent, 

 Griffith, Hook.f., &c. KHASIA MTS., alt. 2-4000 ft., Griffith, H.f. Sf T. 



Thinly pubescent. Leaves opposite, often unequal, 7 by 3 in., base acute or unequally 

 rhomboid ; petiole ^-1 in., often unequal. Peduncles 2-4 in. ; bracts ^ in., narrow ; 

 pedicels 4-1 in. Sepals in. Corolla 1% by in., minutely hairy. Anthers conni- 



